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Byline: Jerry Markon and Adam Goldman The mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was the third time in recent years that someone who had been under FBI [...]

Byline: Hayley Tsukayama, Jerry Markon and Brian Murphy ORLANDO - The last bodies were removed Monday from a blood-splattered Orlando nightclub as investigators from Florida to Kabul expanded the hunt [...]

Byline: Hayley Tsukayama, Mark Berman and Jerry Markon ORLANDO -- A gunman who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State opened fire inside a crowded gay bar and dance club here [...]

Byline: Juliet Eilperin, Mike DeBonis and Jerry Markon WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama nominated Appeals Court Judge Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, calculating that the highly [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon WASHINGTON - Three former federal immigration judges are publicly challenging a senior Justice Department official who argued that 3- and 4-year-olds can learn immigration law well enough [...]

Byline: Sari Horwitz, Robert Barnes and Jerry Markon WASHINGTON - President Obama is finalizing his decision on a Supreme Court nominee to replace the late Antonin Scalia and appears to [...]

Byline: Sari Horwitz, Robert Barnes and Jerry Markon WASHINGTON - President Obama is finalizing his decision on a Supreme Court nominee to replace the late Antonin Scalia and appears to [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon To some, Merrick Garland's experience and demeanor could make him the quintessential Supreme Court candidate for a Democratic president. A magna cum laude Harvard Law School graduate, [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon, Sari Horwitz and Mike DeBonis WASHINGTON - Black civil rights groups and activists are pressing the nation's first African American president to nominate a black woman to [...]

Byline: Amy Goldstein, Jerry Markon and Sari Horwitz WASHINGTON - The White House is considering nearly a half-dozen relatively new federal judges for President Obama's nomination to the Supreme Court, [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon A senior Justice Department official is arguing that 3- and 4-year-olds can learn immigration law well enough to represent themselves in court, staking out an unconventional position [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon The Secret Service is investigating a widely publicized incident in which an agent threw a Time magazine photographer to the ground at a Donald Trump rally in [...]

Byline: Christopher Haxel, Mark Berman and Jerry Markon HESSTON, Kan. - Law enforcement officials struggled Friday to understand how this small town had become the latest American community to be [...]

Byline: Christopher Haxel, Mark Berman and Jerry Markon HESSTON, Kan. - Law enforcement officials struggled Friday to understand how this small town had become the latest American community to be [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's traveling companion at the Texas ranch where he died is a longtime Washington lawyer who has represented the Republican Party and shared [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon and Mark Berman Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's free stay at the secluded Texas ranch where he died highlights questions about what gratuities judges can accept and [...]

Byline: Mark Berman and Jerry Markon Justice Antonin Scalia's sudden death over the weekend at a remote West Texas ranch spawned a host of questions about how authorities in the [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security is expanding its social media presence in an effort to protect the country, reacting to growing concern over terrorists being [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon WASHINGTON - The U.S. government will continue its controversial deportation raids targeting Central American immigrants even as the number of new illegal migrants has fallen dramatically, Department [...]

Byline: Carissa Wolf, Mark Berman and Jerry Markon BURNS, Ore. - Federal agents on Wednesday sealed off an Oregon wildlife refuge that remained occupied by armed protesters after one of [...]

Byline: Karoun Demirjian and Jerry Markon WASHINGTON - The Obama administration announced on Thursday that it has begun to implement restrictions to the visa waiver program Congress passed as part [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon WASHINGTON - The illegal immigrant population in the United States has fallen below 11 million, continuing a nearly decade-long decline that has the potential to reshape the [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon The Peace Corps has suspended its half-century-old program in El Salvador, highlighting the violence that has wracked the Central American nation and helped propel a wave of [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon Lawyers for undocumented Central American immigrants who have flocked to the United States since 2014 have won an early round in their legal battle to prove that [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon and David Nakamura WASHINGTON - The escalating tensions between Democrats and the Obama administration over its deportation raids targeting Central American immigrants burst into public view on [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon and David Nakamura The Department of Homeland Security has begun preparing for a series of raids that would target for deportation hundreds of families who have flocked [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon WASHINGTON - As unaccompanied minors have again crossed the southwest border in growing numbers in recent months, experts have agreed that the root causes of the surge [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon and Joshua Partlow Unaccompanied minors are crossing the U.S. Southwest border in growing numbers again, sparking concerns that the new influx of children could eventually approach the [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon The United States and Cuba said Friday that they will re-establish direct mail service between the two countries for the first time in more than a half [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon The governor of Connecticut announced Thursday that he intends to make his state the first in the nation to ban firearms purchases for people on federal watch [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon WASHINGTON - It's usually left to presidents or Cabinet secretaries to engage in the Washington tradition of a formal address telling Americans the state of national affairs. [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon Donald Trump's proposal to bar all Muslims from entering the United States violates U.S. and international law and would never be allowed by the courts, legal scholars [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security is planning to add a new level to its terrorism advisory system to better reflect a 'new phase' in the [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon WASHINGTON - Rep. Scott Perry, who is trying to make the Department of Homeland Security more efficient, thinks DHS's Federal Protective Service is decidedly inefficient. And he's [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon The Supreme Court handed the Obama administration a procedural but important victory Tuesday in its efforts to get the justices to rule next year on President Obama's [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon A California woman badly injured in a train accident in Austria cannot sue the Austrian railway in the U.S. courts, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in the [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon WASHINGTON - It's known as 'burrowing in' - no, not what gophers and groundhogs do, but the quadrennial tradition practiced by that unique Washington animal: the federal [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon More than a decade after the Department of Homeland Security began a program to fight biological terrorism, 'considerable uncertainty' remains over whether the system can reliably detect [...]

Byline: Wesley Lowery, Danielle Paqette and Jerry Markon COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The gunman suspected of storming a Planned Parenthood clinic and killing a police officer and two others used [...]

Byline: Lindsey Bever, Niraj Chokshi, Sandhya Somashekhar and Jerry Markon A suspect is in police custody following an hours-long ordeal at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where [...]

Byline: Lindsey Bever, Niraj Chokshi, Sandhya Somashekhar and Jerry Markon At least four police officers and an 'unknown number of civilians' were injured Friday in a shooting at a Planned [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon WASHINGTON - American culture and cinema often glorifies space travel, from the heroic early adventurers of 'The Right Stuff' to the more recent rescue of Matt Damon's [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is fighting a growing national backlash against accepting Syrian refugees, saying the government's exhaustive screening process and security checks for new arrivals [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon WASHINGTON - Since the dawn of the digital age, new technologies have helped fuel a surge in child sexual abuse and online exploitation, sending law enforcement officials [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's plan to shield millions of illegal immigrants from deportation may be in legal limbo, but that's not stopping advocates for the undocumented, [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon and Lisa Rein WASHINGTON - The government is seeking to ban smoking in all of the nation's 1.2 million public housing units, the latest step in a [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon Heaving under mountains of paperwork, the government has spent more than $1 billion trying to replace its antiquated approach to managing immigration with a system of digitized [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon;Emma Brown;Katherine Shaver A federal judge in New York blocked deportations nationwide late Saturday of those detained on entry to the United States after an executive order from [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon WASHINGTON - Canada - land of snowboarding prime ministers and cold weather sports - is generally not known as a terrorist haven. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker learned [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon WASHINGTON - Nearly a year ago, President Barack Obama announced a sweeping plan to shield millions of illegal immigrants from deportation, arguing that a mass exodus of [...]